ABSTRACT
Our age is a very deceptive one. It is an age that seems to champion equality, diversity, multiculturalism, and color-blindness while refusing to address real social inequalities and various forms of injustice, discrimination, dehumanization, and marginalization. In a period of liberalism where allegedly everyone believes in equality and color-blindness, the issue of race is made more complex and requires a more rigorous analysis. Further, it is an era that declares that race is not real: “We are all the same.” It is true that the concept of race is a social construct used initially for the purposes of domination. However, we are reminded by Charles Mills that even social constructs are real, especially in terms of their real social, political, and existential consequences.1
